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New Sweden (Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States.^[1]

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Adolph B. Benson

Adolph B. Benson, born Adolph Berndt Bengtsson, (November 22, 1881 – November 10, 1962) was an American scholar, educator and literary historian.

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Albert Cook Myers

Albert Cook Myers (December 12, 1874 – April 1, 1960) was an American author, genealogist, and historian of Quakers and Pennsylvania.

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Alloway Creek

Alloway Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Amandus Johnson

Amandus Johnson (October 27, 1877 – June 30, 1974) was a Swedish- American historian, author and museum director.

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American Swedish Historical Museum

The American Swedish Historical Museum is the oldest Swedish-American museum in the United States.

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Anglo-Dutch Wars

The Anglo–Dutch Wars (Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen) were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) in the mid-17th and late 18th century.

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Bergslagen

Bergslagen is a historical, cultural, and linguistic region located north of Lake Mälaren in northern Svealand, Sweden, traditionally known as a mining district.

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Brandywine Creek (Christina River tributary)

Brandywine Creek (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States.

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Bremen-Verden

Bremen-Verden, formally the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden), were two territories and immediate fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, which emerged and gained imperial immediacy in 1180. By their original constitution they were prince-bishoprics of the Archdiocese of Bremen and Bishopric of Verden.

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Bridgeport, New Jersey

Bridgeport is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated community that is part of Logan Township, in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. New Sweden and Bridgeport, New Jersey are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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C. A. Nothnagle Log House

C. New Sweden and C. A. Nothnagle Log House are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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Cape Henlopen

Cape Henlopen is the southern cape of the Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States.

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Cape May

Cape May consists of a peninsula and barrier island system in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Charles X Gustav

Charles X Gustav, also Carl X Gustav (Karl X Gustav; 8 November 1622 – 13 February 1660), was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death.

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Chester County, Pennsylvania

Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Tscheschter Kaundi), colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Christiana, Delaware

Christiana is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, located on the Christina River, 12 miles southwest of Wilmington.

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Christina River

The Christina River is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, in northern Delaware.

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Christina, Queen of Sweden

Christina (Kristina; 18 December 1626 – 19 April 1689) was a member of the House of Vasa and the Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654.

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Church of Sweden

The Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden.

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Clas Larsson Fleming (March 1592 – 27 July 1644) was a Swedish naval officer and nobleman involved in the development of a formal management structure for the Swedish Navy during the reigns of King Gustavus Adolphus and Christina, Queen of Sweden.

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Cobbs Creek

Cobbs Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Colonial history of the United States

The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. New Sweden and colonial history of the United States are colonization history of the United States and European colonization of North America.

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Conquest of New Sweden

In September 1655, Dutch soldiers from New Netherland under the command of Peter Stuyvesant conquered the Delaware River colony of New Sweden.

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Consolidated Treaty Series

The Consolidated Treaty Series (CTS) is a collection of multilateral and bilateral treaties signed between 1648 (Peace of Westphalia) and 1918 (end of World War I) inclusive.

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Dalarna

Dalarna, also referred to by the English exonyms Dalecarlia and the Dales, is a landskap (historical province) in central Sweden.

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Darby, Pennsylvania

Darby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Delaware Bay

Delaware Bay is the estuary outlet of the Delaware River on the northeast seaboard of the United States, lying between the states of Delaware and New Jersey.

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Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delaware County, colloquially referred to as Delco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Delaware languages

The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States.

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Delaware Wedge

The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is a tract of land along the borders of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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Duchy of Estonia (1561–1721)

The Duchy of Estonia (Hertigdömet Estland, Eestimaa hertsogkond, Herzogtum Estland), also known as Swedish Estonia, (italic) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1561 until 1721 during the time that most or all of Estonia was under Swedish rule.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Dutch West India Company

The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Westindische Compagnie) was a chartered company of Dutch merchants as well as foreign investors, formally known as GWC (Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie; Chartered West India Company).

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Eddystone, Pennsylvania

Eddystone is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Eric Pålsson Mullica

Eric Pålsson Mullica (or Mullikka, 1636/37 – before 1704) was an early Swedish settler (with Finnish ancestry) to New Sweden.

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Estonians

Estonians or Estonian people (eestlased) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who speak the Estonian language.

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European colonization of the Americas

During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century. New Sweden and European colonization of the Americas are colonization history of the United States and former colonies in North America.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Finland under Swedish rule

In Swedish and Finnish history, Finland under Swedish rule is the historical period when the bulk of the area that later came to constitute Finland was an integral part of Sweden.

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Finnish Americans

Finnish Americans (amerikansuomalaiset) comprise Americans with ancestral roots in Finland, or Finnish people who immigrated to and reside in the United States.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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Finns Point

Finns Point is a small promontory in Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey, and New Castle County, Delaware, located at the southwest corner of the cape of Penns Neck, on the east bank of the Delaware River near its mouth on Delaware Bay. New Sweden and Finns Point are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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Flag of Philadelphia

The city flag of Philadelphia is a blue and yellow triband, featuring the Seal of Philadelphia.

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Flag of Sweden

The national flag of Sweden (Sveriges flagga) consists of a yellow or gold Nordic cross (i.e. a horizontal cross extending to the edges, with the crossbar closer to the hoist than the fly) on a field of light blue.

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Fogel Grip

Fogel Grip (Bird Griffin, Swedish: Fågel Grip) was a Swedish sailing ship originally built in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. New Sweden and Fogel Grip are 17th century in Sweden.

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Forest Finns

Forest Finns (Metsäsuomalaiset, Norwegian bokmål: Skogfinner, Norwegian nynorsk: Skogfinnar, Skogsfinnar) were Finnish migrants from Savonia and Northern Tavastia in Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden proper and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture, a method used for turning forests into farmlands. New Sweden and forest Finns are Finnish-American history.

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Fort Casimir

Fort Casimir or Fort Trinity was a Dutch fort in the seventeenth-century colony of New Netherland. New Sweden and fort Casimir are Swedish-American history.

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Fort Christina

Fort Christina, also called Fort Altena, was the first Swedish settlement in North America and the principal settlement of the New Sweden colony. New Sweden and Fort Christina are 1638 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire and Swedish-American history.

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Fort Nassau (South River)

Fort Nassau was a factorij in New Netherland between 1624–1651 located at the mouth of Big Timber Creek at its confluence with the Delaware River.

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Fort Nya Elfsborg

Fort Nya Elfsborg was a fortification and settlement established as a part of New Sweden. New Sweden and fort Nya Elfsborg are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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George Carteret

Vice-Admiral Sir George Carteret, 1st Baronet (– 14 January 1680 N.S.) was a royalist statesman in Jersey and England, who served in the Clarendon Ministry as Treasurer of the Navy.

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Gibbstown, New Jersey

Gibbstown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Greenwich Township, in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church

Gloria Dei Church, known locally as Old Swedes, is a historic church located in the Southwark neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 929 South Water Street, bounded by Christian Street on the north, South Christopher Columbus Boulevard (formerly Delaware Avenue) on the east, and Washington Avenue on the south.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Great power

A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.

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Gustav Vasa

Gustav I (born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family; 12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), commonly known as Gustav Vasa, was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm (Riksföreståndare) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

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Gustavus Adolphus

Gustavus Adolphus (9 December 15946 November 1632), also known in English as Gustav II Adolf or Gustav II Adolph, was King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, and is credited with the rise of Sweden as a great European power (Stormaktstiden).

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H. Arnold Barton

Hildor Arnold Barton (November 30, 1929 – September 28, 2016) was an American historian and a national authority on Scandinavian history, especially the history of Sweden, and of Swedes and other Scandinavians in North America.

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Henry Graham Ashmead

Henry Graham Ashmead (June 30, 1838 – November 27, 1920) was an American historian, journalist, and chronicler of Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes)

Holy Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes, is a historic church at East 7th and Church Street in Wilmington, Delaware. New Sweden and Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) are Swedish-American history.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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Infobase

Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.

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J. Franklin Jameson

John Franklin Jameson (September 19, 1859 – September 28, 1937) was an American historian, author, and journal editor who played a major role in the professional activities of American historians in the early 20th century.

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Johan Björnsson Printz

Johan Björnsson Printz (July 20, 1592 – May 3, 1663) was governor from 1643 until 1653 of the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River in North America.

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Johan Papegoja

Johan Papegoja (died March 23, 1667) was a Swedish nobleman, soldier, and the fifth governor of the Swedish Colony of New Sweden.

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Johan Risingh

Johan Classon Risingh (1617 in Risinge – 1672) was the last governor of the Swedish colony of New Sweden.

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John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 26 August 1678) of Berkeley House in Westminster and of Twickenham Park in Middlesex, was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family.

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Kalmar Nyckel

Key of Kalmar was a Swedish ship built by the Dutch famed for carrying Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, to establish the colony of New Sweden. New Sweden and Kalmar Nyckel are 17th century in Sweden and economic history of Sweden.

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Kent County, Delaware

Kent County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Kingsessing, Philadelphia

Kingsessing is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Laurentius Carels

Laurentius Carels (1624–1688) was one of the first settlers of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and one of the first Swedish Lutheran clergyman in New Sweden.

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Lenape

The Lenape (Lenape languages), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.

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Log cabin

A log cabin is a small log house, especially a minimally finished or less architecturally sophisticated structure.

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Lower Swedish Cabin

The Lower Swedish Cabin is a historic Swedish-style log cabin which is located on Creek Road in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, along Darby Creek.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania

Marcus Hook is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Måns Nilsson Kling

Måns Nilsson Kling or Mauno Kling was the second governor of the 17th century colony of New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige), which he administrated from Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware, United States.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Monarchy of Sweden

The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden,See the Instrument of Government, Chapter 1, Article 5.

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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Montgomery County, colloquially referred to as Montco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Mullica River

The Mullica River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Munsee language

Munsee (also known as Munsee Delaware, Delaware, Ontario Delaware, Huluníixsuwaakan, Monsii èlixsuwakàn) is an endangered language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a branch of the Algic language family.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Native American religions

Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the Native Americans in the United States.

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New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.

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New Castle County, Delaware

New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex).

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New Netherland

New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America. New Sweden and New Netherland are colonial settlements in North America, colonization history of the United States and former colonies in North America.

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New Sweden Farmstead Museum

The New Sweden Farmstead Museum was an open-air museum in Bridgeton, New Jersey, United States. New Sweden and New Sweden Farmstead Museum are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Norristown, Pennsylvania

Norristown is a municipality with home rule status and the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

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Northern War of 1655–1660

The Northern War of 1655–1660, also known as the Second Northern War, First Northern War or Little Northern War, was fought between Sweden and its adversaries the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1655–60), the Tsardom of Russia (1656–58), Brandenburg-Prussia (1657–60), the Habsburg monarchy (1657–60) and Denmark–Norway (1657–58 and 1658–60). New Sweden and Northern War of 1655–1660 are 17th century in Sweden.

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Olof Persson Stille (1610–1684) was a pioneer settler of New Sweden, a colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in North America claimed by Sweden from 1638 to 1655.

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Pehr Kalm

Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Peter Hollander Ridder

Peter Hollander Ridder (1608–1692) was the governor of the Swedish colony of New Sweden from 1640 until 1643.

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Peter Minuit

Peter Minuit (also Pierre Minuit (french version), or Peter Minnewit (dutch version)) (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a walloon (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) merchant born in Wesel, in present-day northwestern Germany.

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Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant (in Dutch also Pieter and Petrus Stuyvesant,; – August 1672)Mooney, James E. "Stuyvesant, Peter" in p.1256 was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was split into New York and New Jersey with lesser territory becoming parts of other colonies, and later, states.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Port of Gothenburg

The municipally-owned Port of Gothenburg (Göteborgs hamn) is the largest port in the Nordic countries, with over 11,000 ship visits per year from over 140 destinations worldwide.

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Possessions of Sweden

This is a list of possessions of Sweden held outside of Sweden proper during the early modern period.

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Province of Maryland

The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America from 1634 until 1776, when the province was one of the Thirteen Colonies that joined in supporting the American Revolution against Great Britain.

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Province of New York

The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783.

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Raccoon Creek (New Jersey)

Raccoon Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Rambo apple

The origins of the Rambo apple cultivar are unknown.

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Revolt of the Long Swede

The Revolt of the Long Swede also known as the Intended Insurrection of the Long Swede, the Insurrection in Delaware, the Uproar Among the Swedes, and the Long Finn Rebellion, was an attempted uprising of the population of the former Swedish colony of New Sweden against the British.

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Russell Shorto

Russell Anthony Shorto (born February 8, 1959) is an American author, historian, and journalist who is best known for his book on the Dutch origins of New York City, The Island at the Center of the World.

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Sachem

Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois.

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Saint Kitts

Saint Kitts, officially Saint Christopher, is an island in the West Indies.

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Salem County, New Jersey

Salem County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Salem River

The Salem River is a tributary of the Delaware River in southwestern New Jersey in the United States.

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Salem, New Jersey

Salem is a city in Salem County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Samuel Blommaert

Samuel Blommaert (Bloemaert, Blommaerts, Blommaart, Blomert, etc.) (11 or 21 August 1583, in Antwerp – 23 December 1651, in Amsterdam) was a Flemish/Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642.

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Savonia (historical province)

Savonia (Savo, Savolax) is a historical province in the east of Finland.

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Schuylkill River

The Schuylkill River is a river in eastern Pennsylvania.

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Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

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Society Hill

Society Hill is a historic neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, with a population of 6,215.

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South Philadelphia

South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west.

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Spanish Florida

Spanish Florida (La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery.

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St. James Kingsessing

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Susquehannock

The Susquehannock, also known as the Conestoga, Minquas, and Andaste, were an Iroquoian people who lived in the lower Susquehanna River watershed in what is now Pennsylvania.

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Sussex County, Delaware

Sussex County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula.

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Swedeland, Pennsylvania

Swedeland is a small unincorporated community that is located in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.

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Swedes' Landing

Swedes' Landing is the warehouse road found along the Minquas Kill in Wilmington, Delaware that is close to the Delaware River. New Sweden and Swedes' Landing are Swedish-American history.

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Swedesboro, New Jersey

Swedesboro is a borough within Gloucester County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. New Sweden and Swedesboro, New Jersey are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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Swedish Americans

Swedish Americans (Svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish descent.

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Swedish colonies in the Americas

Sweden established colonies in the Americas in the mid-17th century, including the colony of New Sweden (1638–1655) on the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, as well as two possessions in the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries. New Sweden and Swedish colonies in the Americas are former Swedish colonies and Swedish-American history.

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Swedish emigration to the United States

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. New Sweden and Swedish emigration to the United States are Swedish-American history.

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Swedish Empire

The Swedish Empire (stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. New Sweden and Swedish Empire are 17th century in Sweden.

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Swedish Ingria

Swedish Ingria (Svenska Ingermanland, ‘land of Ingrians’) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1583 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to 1721 in what is now the territory of Russia.

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Swedish language

Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.

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Swedish Livonia

Swedish Livonia (Svenska Livland) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1629 until 1721.

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Swedish Pomerania

Swedish Pomerania (Svenska Pommern; Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland.

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Swedish riksdaler

The svenska riksdaler was the name of a Swedish coin first minted in 1604. New Sweden and Swedish riksdaler are economic history of Sweden.

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Swedish South Company

The Swedish South Company, also known as the Company of New-Sweden (Swedish, Söderkompaniet, Nya Sverige-kompaniet), was a trading company from Sweden founded in 1626, that supported the trade between Sweden and its colony New Sweden, in North America.

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The Printzhof

The Printzhof, located in Governor Printz Park in Essington, Pennsylvania, was the home of Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

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Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Tinicum Township, also known as Tinicum Island or The Island, is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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Trøndelag County Municipality

Trøndelag County Municipality (Trøndelag fylkeskommune or Trööndelagen fylhkentjïelte) is the democratically elected regional governing administration of Trøndelag county in Norway.

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Treaty of Westminster (1674)

The Treaty of Westminster of 1674 was the peace treaty that ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

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Trinity Church (Swedesboro, New Jersey)

Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes' Church, is a historic church on the northwest corner of Church Street and King's Highway in Swedesboro in Gloucester County, New Jersey, U.S. The congregation was founded as a Swedish Lutheran parish in 1703, after local residents tired of crossing the Delaware River or Philadelphia to worship. New Sweden and Trinity Church (Swedesboro, New Jersey) are Finnish-American history and Swedish-American history.

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Unami language

Unami (Wënami èlixsuwakàn) is an Algonquian language initially spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in the southern two-thirds of present-day New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania, and the northern two-thirds of Delaware.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Upland Court

Upland Court was the governing body of the New Sweden colony following Dutch West India Company annexation from Swedish colonial rule.

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Upland, Pennsylvania

Upland is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania

Upper Merion Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Upper Midwest

The Upper Midwest is a northern subregion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States.

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West Philadelphia

West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia.

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Willem Kieft

Willem Kieft, also Wilhelm Kieft, (September 1597 – September 27, 1647) was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam was the capital) from 1638 to 1647.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. New Sweden and Wilmington, Delaware are 1638 establishments in the Swedish colonial empire and Swedish-American history.

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Yeadon, Pennsylvania

Yeadon is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

See New Sweden and Yeadon, Pennsylvania

42nd parallel north

The 42nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 42 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden

Also known as Fort Nya Gothenborg, Fort Nya Korsholm, New Sweden Company, Nova Suecia, Nya Sverige, Wicaco.

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